Author: jaywp

  • Schwitters In Britain

    Tate Britain, London 30 January–12 May 2013

  • Giorgio Morandi: Lines of Poetry

    To celebrate its 15th anniversary year, the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art is hosting a career-spanning exhibition of one of its most popular artists: Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964). Focusing on his works on paper, and including around 80 drawings, watercolours…

  • Charles Harrison in Retrospect

    Charles Harrison: Looking Back Published by Ridinghouse, London, 2011

  • Susan Hiller: Channels

    Matt’s Gallery, London 13 February–14 April 2013

  • Jay Defeo: a Retrospective

    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 28 February–2 June 2013

  • Embanking the Sublime The Unilever Series: Rachel Whiteread

    Rachel Whiteread is the most successful and original artist to have filled the big space at Tate Modern, the Turbine Hall. Her white landscape of cubic boxes offers the museum-goer something of a dreamland

  • Arthur Watson: poetic conceptualist

    The work of Arthur Watson plays an important role in contemporary Scottish art. Characterised by a ‘poetic conceptualism’, Watson draws from a range of idiosyncratic experiences and predilections, all of which seem to be linked to his intimate knowledge of…

  • Tan Dun’s ‘Visual Music’

    Shanghai Gallery of Art, April – May 2005 My first encounter with Tan Dun was through his multimedia concerto grosso ‘The Map’ last October in Shanghai. He still used the usual western musical instruments, however, what left a deep impression…

  • Cy Twombly: Philosophy in Paint

    Cy Twombly: Philosophy in Paint Cy Twombly Inverleith House, Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh 9 August-27 October 2002.

  • Frank Stella

    Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 29 April–31 May 2003. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, 8 May–18 June 2003. Two new exhibitions of new work by Frank Stella recently opened in London and New York. The Bernard Jacobson Gallery showed works named…

  • David Smith: Personage

    Gagosian Gallery, London 2 November-9 December 2006

  • Living, Looking, Making: Richard Serra and Others

    The Gagosian Gallery in London is currently showing (until 19 May) a key exhibition of contemporary sculpture. Works by Giacometti, Fontana, Twombly and Serra, leave no doubt of the pre-eminence of Richard Serra. This article discusses previous works by Serra…

  • Richard Serra in London

    Latterly, in the last quarter of 2008, their young architect David Kohn was involved, on site, in raising the actual new-built height of the internal volume of the spacious new gallery off Kings Cross to match the size of Serra’s…

  • Roni Horn aka Roni Horn

    In the artist’s most comprehensive survey to date, Roni Horn fuses image and text to enable contemplation of the impact of the water and weather on human identity, in an exhibition that will be adapted to the light and architecture…

  • Ron Mueck: Sculptures at the National Galleries of Scotland

    5 August-1 October 2006 The National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, in the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA), has mounted a superb exhibition which, for the most part of the festival period, has adjoined the fine exhibition on the work of…

  • Rodin

    Rodin Royal Academy of Arts, London 23 September 2006-1 January 2007

  • ARCHITECTURE + CERAMICS = SCULPTURE

    Nicholas Rena and Matthew Smith: Proving Ground New ceramic vessels by Nicholas Rena with paintings by Matthew Smith

  • The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture

    Saatchi Gallery, London 27 May–16 October 2011

  • A maturing craft becomes art: Japan Society’s Joe Earle discusses the new shape of bamboo

    New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters 4 October 2008-11 January 2009 Japan Society, New York City The first bamboo basket maker known to have signed his work, Hayakawa Shôkosai, was born in 1815. From his staking claim to an identity as…

  • In the Kingdom of the Gods and Goddesses

    Then, in 1975, an even more remarkable underground city was discovered in Chandigarh. For 18 years, humble, self-taught Hindu artist, Nek Chand, had been secretly constructing an extraordinary folk art environment. Although Chand called it the Kingdom (nagri) of the…

  • Modern British Sculpture

    The Royal Academy of Arts, London 22 January–7 April 2011

  • Anticipating Avatar?

    Lynn Chadwick: Works 1969–1988 Beaux Arts Gallery, London 19 May–19 June 2010

  • Richard Long: Heaven and Water

    Tate Britain, London 3 June–6 September 2009

  • Richard Long: Walking and Marking

    National Galleries of Scotland 30 June-21 October 2007 The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in Edinburgh, in time for the Edinburgh Festival 2007, is currently staging an outstanding recent retrospective exhibition on Richard Long. There is a curious irony…